From gavin.jackson at gmail.com Sat Sep 13 04:07:50 2014 From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:07:50 +1200 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] October Meeting - Statistical Learning on Big Data - Dale Roberts Message-ID: Statistical Learning on Big Data - Dale Roberts In this talk I?ll give a short intro to statistical learning (aka. machine learning) using Python and the scikit-learn package. I?ll outline some of the benefits of using Python (vs. R) and then discuss some methods for scaling these techniques to big data. I?ll finish with an example of a recent project I worked on whereby a statistical learning algorithm is applied to a petabyte-sized data set. Thursday 2nd October 6pm at Peoplebank offices in civic Please RSVP here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ch5qf2del2nlr9odr6hep0kimek?authkey=COrH9aif58rWZg PS: Still seeking a speaker for our November meeting - hit me up if you are interested in presenting! -- Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: